Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice

Getting a head of state in the dock was once unthinkable but as journalist and human rights advocate Steve Crawshaw uncovers in PROSECUTING THE POWERFUL - a blend of on-the-ground reportage and intellectual history - it is a real possibility. In recent years rogue dictators from Serbia''s Slobodan MiloAevic - whom Steve interviewed -- to Liberia''s Charles Taylor and Sudan''s Omar al-Bashir have all ended up behind bars. Could Putin be next? Starting with reporting on crimes Ukraine, Crawshaw delves into the heroic history of how in the early 20th-century Raphael Lemkin (a native of Lviv) coined the term "genocide", and the lesser-known story of how the PM of Trinidad & Tobago was instrumental in setting up the International Criminal Court. Along the way we see how a brave whistleblower in Syria smuggled out pictures of Assad''s torture prisons and how the US passed a law giving it the freedom to storm the Hague and rescue any of its soldiers put on trial there. PROSECUTING THE POWERFUL tells a hopeful story of the long march towards justice for victims of state warfare.

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Steve Crawshaw

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'Powerful, timely and moving, Steve Crawshaw's book is an indictment of double standards and hypocrisy, and a brilliant call for justice.' Helena Kennedy

'Gives us hope that those who are causing so much suffering today may face justice tomorrow. A tour de force.' Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor Channel 4 News and author of I Brought the War With Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line

'Eloquently confronts one of the toughest dilemmas of the moment: how to hold war criminals to account.' Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy Inc.

''Highly readable and timely... superb,' Raja Shehadeh, author of What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?